So thirty-eight times, a document arrived on Corinne Lasseter’s desk, correctly formed, under threshold, requisitioned by the chief executive of the company, against a budget line the chief executive controlled, for a category of spend the chief executive was known to manage personally.

She raised it twice.

That is the part that broke me, when I read it, in a public filing, on a laptop, at a kitchen table, in the following August.

In March of the second year she sent an email asking for the engagement letter and scope of work for Halyard.

She was sent a two-page document.

It is in the exhibits.

It is generic and it is real-looking and I would have accepted it.